On Thursday, May 01, 2014 10:04:51 Martin Pinkston wrote: > Having observed Synhak over the past 6 months, I too have witnessed the > infectious nature and spread of the poison which now spills out all > Synhak's pores. It is toxic, and palpable as soon as you cross the > threshold. It matters not what the cause was or why it still thrives. > The real issue from this point forward is, can the space/body survive? > I believe there needs to be an impartial knife applied liberally to cut out > the non-viable tissue. No consensus, no vote, no appeal. Re-application for > future membership, possible. Will this hurt the cash flow from dues? Yes! > But what does that matter if the space is dead? This needs to be done > quickly and the surgeon given unquestioned latitude. Impossible? Not > really. > Difficult? Certainly! > Will it happen? I truly doubt it, but without it, death is just a heartbeat > away.
Community Working Group can be that surgeon. However, we've already had a champion resign. There is a board vote to remove me as Treasurer as if I'm acting unfairly. Now there's a proposal to remove a co-founder. I hear that more people are planning to jump ship very quickly. I was at a group dinner last night and numerous people were disappointed in the effect that a single-digited number of people have had on the community of 200. My phone, inbox, and IRC channels are full of folks lamenting SYNHAK's demise and giving words of support and their condolences. They're disappointed that I've been caught in such a trainwreck, but hopeful that something better will happen. Regardless of whatever happens in the next few days, there are a lot of people who are no longer returning to SYNHAK or continuing to remain involved. I will be spending an upcoming weekend constructing a timeline of the last two years to figure out what happened and how all of this could have been prevented. The knowledge will be preserved on hackerspaces.org, and used to further the development antifragile hackerspaces around the planet. Those interested in this postmortem analysis are welcome to join me. Feel free to contact me off list if you want to help build a better hackerspace. Maybe we'll fix SYNHAK and cut out whatever the cancer is. Maybe we'll start something new. We've been an inspiration to uncountable numbers of people in northeast Ohio, causing a handful of other spaces to pop up in our wake. Here's what started it all: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TorrieFischer/posts/JgCkY2GQijT Another hackerspace can take its place if needed. SYNHAK was designed to be forkable. Lessons can be learned from this. It won't have died in vain. > > Metaphor Martin, > > Take Care & Have fun Always. > Martin Pinkston RN > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@synhak.org > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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